DOJ Has Recovered Missing Text Messages from Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
The Justice Department announced on Thursday that they have recovered a large chunk of the missing text messages exchanged between senior FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz sent a memo to lawmakers confirming that several months worth of correspondence between Strzok and Page have been located thanks to a “technical glitch.” This turn of events comes after a software misconfiguration previously caused these messages to disappear.
From CNN:
“The OIG has been investigating this matter and, this week, succeeded in using forensic tools to recover text messages from FBI devices, including text messages between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page that were sent or received between December 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017…Our effort to recover any additional text messages is ongoing. We will provide copies of the text messages that we recover from these devices to the Department so that the Department’s leadership can take any management action it deems appropriate.”
Strzok and Page have been the source of major political intrigue due to the fact that they worked for Robert Mueller‘s team after displaying bias against President Trump. Strzok was removed from the special counsel investigation, though there are outstanding concerns over his involvement with the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton‘s email scandal.
Several figures among the Congressional GOP have used these controversial details to allege that the FBI’s leadership is awash with corruption and bias against the president. These allegations intensified after some of Strzok and Page’s texts were recovered earlier this week, and they supposedly alluded to an anti-Trump “secret society.”
News organizations have seen that particular text, however, and it appears the “secret society” quip was more of a joke than anything else.
Watch above, via Fox News.
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